Lamentations 1
The prophet speaks about Jerusalem
But now it is completely alone.
She was a famous city among the
But now she is alone, like a
She ruled other countries like a
But now she has become a slave.
There are
She had many
But now there is no one to
All her friends have turned away from her.
They have become her enemies.
The people
Judah's people live among foreign nations.
They have nowhere to rest safely.
Their enemies
Judah's people could not
Nobody travels along them to come to the
No people meet at the city gates.
The
The young women weep.
The people of
They live an easy life.
The Lord has caused Jerusalem to suffer
because of the many
Enemies have taken her children away
as their prisoners.
Her leaders are like
that can find no food to eat.
They are too weak to escape
from the people who are chasing them.
and they have no homes to live in.
So they remember how great their city was,
and the valuable things that they had long ago.
When their enemies took the city for themselves,
nobody came to help them.
Jerusalem's enemies laughed
while they destroyed the city.
That is why it has become an
At one time, people gave her
But now they do not
They have seen her great
Jerusalem's people are upset.
They hide their faces because they are
The people did not think about their sins.
They did not
But a
There was nobody who could
Jerusalem's people call for help
They called to God for help,
‘Lord, see our trouble!
Our enemies are
that they have won against us!’
Her people watched
as
But the Lord himself had said,
‘Foreign people must not go into that special place.’
as they look for a bit of food to eat.
They have to sell their valuable things
to buy enough food to keep them alive.
The people say, ‘Lord, look at us!
Nobody
‘Will you do nothing to help us?
Look at us!
See that we are
The Lord has caused us to suffer
because he is very angry with us.
It has destroyed our
He has prepared a
so that we have to turn back.
He has left us weak and alone.
We have pain all day, every day.
The Lord himself has tied that heavy load on us.
We were strong,
but he has caused us to become weak.
He has put us under the power of our enemies.
We can do nothing to stop them.
who were ready to fight for us.
He brought a big army to fight against us,
and to destroy our young men.
The Lord God has stamped on us, the people of Judah,
like people stamp on
There is nobody here who can
Nobody can make us strong and brave.
Our enemies have won against us,
so our children no longer hope for anything good.’
God is punishing Jerusalem's people
but there is nobody to
The Lord has decided to
The
Jerusalem has become like a
among the other nations.
Jerusalem's people agree that they are wrong
We have refused to obey his
Listen to us, all you
See how much we are
Enemies have taken away our young women and our young men
as their
But they refused to help us.
Our
They were looking for food to keep themselves alive.
We are very
We have turned against you
and now we are sad deep inside ourselves.
In the streets, our enemies attack us and they kill us.
In our homes, there is also death.
but nobody comes to
Our enemies know about our great trouble.
They are happy to see that you have
Please now make our enemies suffer as we have suffered.
You have promised to do that. Please do it soon!
Punish them as you have punished us for all our
Now we are very sad and we cry a lot.
We no longer hope for anything good.’